Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
The Right to Privacy
Bitcoin is a system that works within the majority of legal frameworks — all of the ones in the free world. An [...]
Fully Peer-to-Peer
In 2011, I sent my last email as Satoshi to Gavin… Gavin,I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as [...]
MSBs and Account-Based Systems
Monero and mixed coins (such as those using Schnorr) are engaged in the activity of money transfers and money handling. [...]
From the Bygone Days of Yore — Part 1
In today’s post, I will go back to 2012: Panopticrypt had been running since 2011, and I was ready to [...]
Satoshi and Science
The scientific principle applies in all aspects of life, including jurisprudence and law. It has done so for a long [...]
The GST Story
The following is why you do not pay VAT or GST on Bitcoin. In January 2014, the Australian government argued [...]
Shades of Black…
If you believe the government cannot stop any cryptocurrency, you’re deluded. Bitcoin will work because it stays within law in [...]
Satoshi and the Sophists
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louise Brandeis wrote: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight [...]
Economic Security
Reorgs and orphan blocks are not an issue with Bitcoin. To say that they are is to compound two separate [...]
Funding and rights
My personal bitcoin and the ones owned by the company were two different things. The ones that were being used [...]
Why code must not be law
In early 2014, I had a company called Hotwire in Australia that had just under 50 staff members. In December 2013, with [...]
Institutional madness
There is a simple reason why Tether (USDT) has avoided being audited. At least 31% of the reported funds have [...]